C needs BCD (ANSI People: Please Lis

[paul at ISM780B.UUCP]

> One of the biggest problems with C is the lack of a BCD
> (Binary Coded Decimal) arithmetic type.

PL/I has already been invented.  It has 11 million different flavors
of arithmetic.  Why didn't you use it?  Too slow?  Not available?
Think about why that might be.

> Why should C provide floating point operations and not provide
> BCD operations ?

Right.  So get rid of floating point :-).

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